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On 16 October 2007 at the extraordinary session of the National Assembly (the parliament) a package of draft laws was adopted that included amendments to the Armenian Electoral Code and statute "On Television and Radio Broadcasting". On the same day the bills were signed by the President of Armenia and were published on 19 November 2007 in the Official Bulletin of the Republic of Armenia and hence came into force. The amendments and additions that were introduced brought some provisions of the broadcasting law into compliance with the Electoral Code. In particular, Article 11 (“Broadcasts during...

On 16 February 2007, the Constitutional Court of Armenia heard the complaint concerning the compliance of a number of provisions of the statute of the Republic of Armenia “Rules of procedure of the National Assembly”, with the national Constitution. This refers to the provisions obliging public TV and radio to broadcast sessions and other programmes on the National Assembly (the parliament). An appeal on the matter was made on 28 December 2006 by President Robert Kocharian of Armenia. As reported by the Yerevan Press Club, the issue of covering parliamentary activities was raised in March 2006...

At the beginning of 2007, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) adopted five country-specific Resolutions in the context of the Second Monitoring Cycle of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). The Resolutions contain a number of provisions concerning the (audiovisual) media (for similar provisions in earlier country-specific Resolutions, see IRIS 2006-2: 4). In respect of Finland, the CM notes that radio programmes in minority languages, “while limited in their scope, have become important tools in the promotion and protection of minority cultures”....

On 15 June 2006 the National Assembly of Armenia adopted in the third and final reading the new Statute “On Copyright and Related Rights”. The Statute contains a number of provisions on media activities that are mostly similar to the stipulations of the previous law of 8 December 1999 and international covenants. Article 51 of the Statute (“Rights of Broadcasting Organization”) stipulates that the broadcasting organization has a right to use its programme in any form and to receive remuneration for any form of use of a programme except in the cases provided for by this Statute. The broadcasting...

On 27 November 2005, a constitutional referendum was held in Armenia. According to official information the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia was amended by the majority of votes. The changes that were thus introduced aim mainly at the reallocation of powers between legislative and executive authorities. At the same time the Act includes a number of provisions regulating the activities of the mass media. Some of them are to be found in chapter 1 (Fundamentals of the Constitutional System), some are in chapter 2 dealing with rights and freedoms of Armenian citizens, and some more in the articles...